Quick Fishing Report

[edwin]

I was fortunate enough to work remotely from Table Rock the last part of the week, got in some decent fishing Thurs, Fri, and Sat am. I fished mainly between Aunts Creek and Pt 11. Thurs was pretty quiet except for a handful of spoon fish in 40' or so. I've never had much luck right after a nasty cold front...maybe it's just me.

Friday was hit and miss until around 3:30 or so...you could feel them tapping at the jig but only a few would take it. I downsized to a 3/8 oz jig and a finesse worm to catch 7 or 8. Then it was like someone flipped the switch as the sun started making it's way down behind the hills. Last 90 mins of the day produced 13 bass...with 7 of them being keepers, including my best LM at TRock to date at 5.3lbs. As you can see in the pic, the fish were hungry as most of the fish caught in the last 90 mins took the jig like they meant it. All caught in 15-20' of water, chunk rock banks, submerged cedars and the boat sitting in 30-35' of water.

I was only able to fish till 11am today, ended up with 9 fish...6 of them keepers. Same 15' depths as Friday. My ability is weak at best compared to most on the site, but a couple of things I needed to catch fish the past couple days - most of the fish were pretty tight to cedar trees, forced myself to slow wayyyy down and take my time. I worked a small cove in Jackson Hollow this am for almost an hour. I caught 6 keepers there...had three other boats come in, burn down the opposite bank and catch nothing, and leave.

Tight lines,

edwin

[techo]

Thanks for the report. A bit chilly out there today? It is funny you mention folks coming in and burning down the bank and leaving. I see that all of the time and always wonder if I am slower than most. They all pull up to the same tree in that hollow.....throw some lure in, snag up and leave.

I see an old timer fish off of a pontoon all of the time in the same area and he seems to reel quite a few in. I often wonder what he does and how he does it. One of these times I am going to go ask him.

[edwin]

Gotta say it sure felt colder on Thursday when it was overcast with fog...only to be topped by the rain shower late Thursday with high 30 deg temps.

Kinda hoping the cold front doesn't change things too much...I'm headed back down next Friday for as many days as the wife will allow

[S&M]

Great report edwin,

I went out friday and saturday. I wasn't expecting much out of fridays trip due to the cold front, but it worked out better then I thought. Now saturday was a whole other story, it was a termendous day of spoon fishing. I pushed the 40 fish mark. Once again Aunts creek is holding a ton of bait fish.

The bait fish have not moved out of the general area I'm fishing in aunts creek for over a week. Next week I should have a better understanding of which way the bait fish are moving. If I had to guess, I would say there moving towards the mouth of Aunts.

I'm very surprised at the water temps I'm seeing....49* in the morning up to 50* by mid afternoon, then back to 49* at dusk.

Anyone having any spinner bait success?.....I'm not ....thought 50* degree temps and bait fish moving in the creek arms promotes a spinner bait bite ?

[edwin]

Hear ya on the bait fish in Aunts Creek...I didn't even start the big motor when dropped the lift on Thursday. Caught a couple spoon fish in no time right off the end of my dock. Looking fwd to more spoon fish next week as I'll leave the wife back at the house and be joined by my two daughters (5 and 8).

I wouldn't be surprised for the water to lose 4-5 degrees in the next week. I slow rolled the spinnerbait for a bit but couldn't get any takers. If we get a few sunny days I'd also expect the jerk bait bite to pick up. I caught two Rogue fish over the last few days but the jig was far better to me.

[S&M]

You're probably spot on with you water temp guess for next weekend. The spoon fish I've been catching aren't "streaking", so I'm counting on the spoon bite to even get better as the water drops towards 45*.

I almost pulled out a jerk bait yesterday, but when your catching it's hard to try something different. I did try a jig for about an hour without any bites so I went back to what was working for me.

I just love bass fishing this time of year